Heir to the Glimmering World - Brossura

Ozick, Cynthia

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0618618805 ISBN 13: 9780618618804

Casa editrice: Mariner Books, 2005

Riassunto

James A'bair, whose father is the author of the popular series The Bear Boy, has taken in the eccentric Mitwisser family and the orphaned Rose Meadows, who must resist the pull of the actual Bear Boy as she pursues her own desires, in a novel that evokes Depression-era New York. Reader's Guide included. Reprint.

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Recensione:

Perhaps the fullest treatment yet of the European intellectual's flight from Hitler's Germany...one of Ozick's most interesting [works].
Kirkus Reviews, Starred

"Audacious. . .[A] brilliant apostrophe to shattered worlds." --John Leonard The New York Times Book Review

"In language aglow with fierce wit and passionate intensity. . .[Ozick's book] has all the hallmarks of a permanent work of literature." --Merle Rubin The Wall Street Journal

"A novel as scintillating as this one makes the world infinitely new..." --James Marcus Newsday

"A wise, quietly magical book." --James Sallis.
The Washington Post

L'autore:

Cynthia Ozick is the author of numerous acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction. She is a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Man Booker International prize. Her stories have won four O. Henry first prizes, and Ozick was recently awarded the 2008 Pen/Nabokov Award and the 2008 Pen/Malamud Award. She lives in New York.

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• Editore: Mariner Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0618618805
• ISBN 13: 9780618618804
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Numero di pagine: 322